31-10-2014, 09:09am
I'm not a vegatarian, I'm an alco-carnivore.
Big steak and a bottle of red covers all of the major food groups, I reckon?
But my wife has been a vegan for 20 years (might explain something!)
She has manufactured vegan dog and and cat food for more than 10 years, and a lot of it is exported mainly to japan. This is because the food is human grade and clean, and the Japanese keep the food together with their own food in their small houses.
http://veganpet.com.au
The main reason her stuff sells is not just because its vegan, but because it doesnt have any of the animal by product shit thats in most commercial dog foods. The 3 D's - Dead/Dying/Diseased left overs from the abbatoirs, and the dead dogs and cats from the vets etc all go to big processing places (Hutmill, Pridmore, etc) and are made into a dry powder product which is then sold on to all of the pet food makers as an additive. So a lot of our dogs and cats get reactions to some of this stuff (some dont, and do OK on the normal stuff ) because its a bit like 'mad cow' - animals eating their own kind? Usually when they stop eating that crap they come good. Its made to a human standard on clean production lines (it tastes like shit, tho!), but it still meets an International nutrition standard - some of the meat dog foods dont come anywhere near meeting this standard - so unfortunately the cost is high.
Big steak and a bottle of red covers all of the major food groups, I reckon?
But my wife has been a vegan for 20 years (might explain something!)
She has manufactured vegan dog and and cat food for more than 10 years, and a lot of it is exported mainly to japan. This is because the food is human grade and clean, and the Japanese keep the food together with their own food in their small houses.
http://veganpet.com.au
The main reason her stuff sells is not just because its vegan, but because it doesnt have any of the animal by product shit thats in most commercial dog foods. The 3 D's - Dead/Dying/Diseased left overs from the abbatoirs, and the dead dogs and cats from the vets etc all go to big processing places (Hutmill, Pridmore, etc) and are made into a dry powder product which is then sold on to all of the pet food makers as an additive. So a lot of our dogs and cats get reactions to some of this stuff (some dont, and do OK on the normal stuff ) because its a bit like 'mad cow' - animals eating their own kind? Usually when they stop eating that crap they come good. Its made to a human standard on clean production lines (it tastes like shit, tho!), but it still meets an International nutrition standard - some of the meat dog foods dont come anywhere near meeting this standard - so unfortunately the cost is high.